Saturday, December 31, 2016

What You Need To Know Today


2016: The year of anger


Does one emotion above all hold the key to understanding a year of tumultuous political change?
I got it from both sides: eardrum-denting yells of fury, which managed to break through the noise of surrounding protestors.
This was April in Brazil, with the country's President Dilma Rousseff facing what would eventually be a successful attempt to impeach her. Both opponents and defenders had taken to the streets.







South Korea pulls website mapping women of prime age to have children

Interior ministry takes site offline after being accused of trying to blame women for the country’s low birth rate

South Korea has closed a government website showing the number of women aged between 15 and 49 – of childbearing age – by city district and region after a public outcry.
The Ministry of the Interior launched the site, which features a pink-coloured “birth map” on Thursday. On Friday, a notice on the site said it was undergoing corrections to reflect public opinion.
Nothing says misogyny like this says misogyny 


What one journalist’s time in an Egyptian prison tells us about the fight against Islamist jihad

On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government
Authoritarian governments must silence their critics  With Donald Trump set to assume power one can only imagine what his government will  do to those who disagree




Staff picks: Our favourite stories from 2016



In 2016 we’ve published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Saudi booze hacks, the blue-eyed boy of Pakistan, a travelling bike cinema in Senegal, to the Hungarian mayor hunting migrants or the mass grave found in Mozambique. Our Paris team looked back at our favourite stories of the year.





Best of 2016 on Al Jazeera


Find out which were our most read stories from this year and which stories our editors liked the most.



Top 5 most read news stories








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